Badminton - last sport to start in Rotterdam

Badminton - last sport to start in Rotterdam

While Sundays are usually days or rest and relaxation, this Sunday was a very active one for the participants of the European Universities Games here in Rotterdam.

 

Badminton, the last sport out of the 10 sports on the programme of the EUGames 2014 has started today with the teams competitions. Badminton fans can follow live scoring; link available online at the EUGames 2014 official website.

 

Badminton competitions

 

Apart from badminton, the preliminary rounds in football, volleyball and basketball continued. In basketball, men and women played 4 matches in each competition, and the first stage will continue tomorrow.

Women's football matches

 

Volleyball, similarly, continued with the matches in the first stage, which will conclude tomorrow as well. Men’s tournament saw 6 matches today, and women’s 5. Also in football men played 6 matches today, while women had 3 matches, still in the first phase of the tournament.


Men's volleyball matches

 

The social programme brings participants together after the matches, being able to socialise, have fun, enjoy some leisure sporting and adrenalin activities, enjoy the music programme and just kick back and relax.

 

Erasmus Pavilion - social hub of the Games

 

Also today the Organisers prepared an interesting compilation; check it out below:

 

 

Even though EUSA became over 6000 Facebook fans strong, we invite more people to join! Like our EUSA Facebook page at www.facebook.com/eusa.university.sport and also the page of the European Universities Games at www.facebook.com/eugames2014 and invite your friends to join us as well!

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